AFTER reading last week’s LookBack Greenbank special Doris Campbell (nee Parr) and Muriel Wilson (Webb) wrote to us to share their school days:

I WAS a pupil at the Southport High School for girls from 1934 to 1939 and during that time the headmistress was Mrs Dymond - a widow.

Before the war, married women were not employed as teachers and had to resign when they married.

The photograph you published was the junior school in my days and after a year there we moved to the senior school which was on the corner of Sefton Street and Scarisbrick New Road.

The building was demolished after the Greenbank School opened and a large block of flats occupies the site.

DORIS CAMPBELL

Mornington Road, Southport

Uniform tale

HOW lovely to see the picture of the Old High School in last week’s Visiter, it brought back many memories.

The reference to uniform and hat was especially interesting as in 1947 Miss Ezard, the headmistress, popped her head round our classroom door and said I was to follow her into her office. Golly I thought, what have I done and what does this summons mean?

Once inside the dreaded office, she promptly placed a badged green beret upon my head and said I had the face that suited a beret and I was to wear the beret on my journeys to and from school as this was to be the hat for the new redesigned uniform. I felt like a pioneer.

I learnt a lot about this strict lady when I met her a few years later whilst working at the Town Hall when she attended for Education Committee meetings. She was always keen to know how other ex-pupils were progressing. She proved to be a sweet and gentle person and our paths crossed many times even in hospital when she was ill.